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Tallahatchie County Courthouse

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
07000149

Phone
  
+1 662-375-9452

Added to NRHP
  
6 March 2007

Built
  
1908 (1908)

Opened
  
1908

Architectural style
  
Romanesque architecture

Architect
  
W.S. Hull

Tallahatchie County Courthouse

Location
  
108 Main St., Sumner, Mississippi

Built by
  
Hull, F.B. Construction Co.

Address
  
401 W Court St, Sumner, MS 38957, USA

The Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse is located in Sumner, Mississippi, in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The county courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 6, 2007. It is located at 108 Main Street. The two-story brick courthouse building was constructed in 1910 in a Richardsonian Romanesque architecture style with a four-story tower on one corner. It was the site of the Emmett Till murder trial.

The building's coordinates are: 33°58′13″N 90°22′10″W / 33.970278°N 90.369444°W / 33.970278; -90.369444

References

Tallahatchie County Courthouse Wikipedia